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WHAT IS OLYMPICS?

The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories participating.

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Olympics in history:

The history of the Games goes back around 3,000 years, to the Peloponnese in Ancient Greece. Sports contests organized at Olympia took place every four years and acquired the name Olympic Games.

Purpose of Olympics:

Olympics are built to promote sport, culture and education to make a better world. The Olympias have faith in excellence, respect and friendship.

7 Olympics values:

. Non-Discrimination

. Sustainability

. Humanism

. Universality

. Solidarity

. Alliance between sport, education and culture.

Types of Olympics:

There are the types of Olympics:

. Summer Olympics

.  Winter Olympics

. Paralympic game

Summer Olympics Game.

The Summer Olympic game, also known as the Summer Olympics or Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural games took place in 1896 in Greece and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris.

Here are some summer Olympics:

. Swimming

. Track and field

.  Basketball

.  Soccer

.  Volleyball

.  Cycling

.  Wrestling

. Boxing

. Diving

Winter Olympics Game.

The Winter Olympic Games, also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.

. Alpine Skiing

. Ice Hockey

. Cross-Country Skiing

. Freestyle skiing

. Snowboarding

. Bobsleigh

Paralympic Game.

A series of international contests with disabilities that are associated with and held following the summer and winter Olympic games also called the Paralympic Games.

Here are the some paralympic games:

. Cycling 

. Wheelchair tennis

. Ice Hockey  

. Biathlon

. Para Surfing

. Para Karate

.  Para Dance

Summer Olympics Game:

Here are some explanations of summer Olympics game: -

             .   Swimming

Olympic swimming takes place inside a 50-metre-long pool divided into eight lanes. Swimmers race each other at distances varying from 50m (one lap) to 1500m (30 laps) using one of four strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly (medley events use all four).

               . Gymnastics

According to Olympics, Gymnastics is a sport that includes exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and coordination, typically performed on specialized equipment like.

Floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, balance beam etc.

Gymnasts execute routines combining elements like tumbling passes, acrobatic skill and holds, judged on execution, difficulty and overall performance.

                     . Basketball

Both the men and women have a competition phase followed by a knockout stage. Both tournaments have a total of 12 teams split into three groups. All eight teams play each other during pool play (each team playing seven total games). After pool play, the teams are ranked based on their records.

Size of basketball used in the Olympics is the same as an NBA ball 29.5-inch circumference, but some will swear to you it feels smaller and lighter.

                               . Soccer

For both the men's and women's tournaments, the competition consists of a round robin group stage followed by a group knockout stage. Teams are placed into groups of 4 teams, with each team playing each other team in its group once. Teams earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss.

                                            . Volleyball

volleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents' playing area before it can be returned.

> Only 6 players on the floor at any given time: 3 in the front row and 3 in the back row.

> Points are made on every serve for the winning team of the rally (rally-point scoring).

> Players may not hit the ball twice in succession (a block is not considered a hit).

The seven positions in volleyball are outside hitters, opposite, setter, middle blocker, libero, defensive specialist, and serving specialist.

 

                                            . Cycling

Though there are four different cycling disciplines included as events 

>Road track

>Mountain bike

>Bicycle motocross

the only style of competition to be featured is racing (that means there are no tricks involved in BMX).

The Olympic event consists of three riders who from a standing start attempt to complete three laps of the track as fast as possible. Each lap, the rider at the front of the pack peels off to let the other riders through until the final rider is left to sprint to the line.

         

                                        . Diving

Diving was first introduced in the official programmed of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympic sport since. It was known as "fancy diving" for the acrobatic stunts performed by divers during the dive such as somersaults and twists.

 Diving scores in the Olympics

The median execution score of each diver and the three middle synchronization scores are added together and multiplied by 0.6 in order to reflect the scores in the individual events. The score is then multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty to calculate its final score.

                                       . Water Polo

Men's water polo was among the first team sports introduced at the modern Olympic Games in 1900. Seven European teams from four countries, including four from the host nation France, took part in the competition. The British team was the inaugural champion.

Matches consist of four eight-minute quarters. Other than the goalkeeper, players may only hold the ball with one hand. Possession lasts 30 seconds; if the team does not attempt a shot within that time, possession passes to the opposition and the shot clock is reset.

> 6 “Field” Players and 1 Goalie start the game. ...

> Field players must pass, catch, and shoot with only 1 hand. ...

> Taking the ball under water when guarded is a turnover.

> The official playing field is at least 25 yards long, 20 yards wide, and 7 feet deep.

> Players may not touch the bottom or hang on the wall.

                                  .Table Tennis

Table Tennis is played on a table divided into two halves by a net in the middle,using an extremely featherlight ball and sophisticated discordances or paddles comprising a rustic blade carpeted with a rubber face on both sides.

> Games are played to 11 points alternate serves every two points.

> Toss the ball straight up when serving.

> The serve can land anywhere in singles.  

> Double serves must go right court to right court.

 Format for the Olympic table tennis:

Mate matches are a best-of-seven games format, with the first player to 11 points (by a margin of two clear points) winning each game. Team matches correspond of four mate matches and one doubles match, each played in a best-of-five games format.

Winter Olympics Game:

Here the explanation of some winter Olympics game: -

                              . Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing has been queried every time in layoffs since 1930 when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948 to 1980, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Crown in Olympic years, with separate competitions held in indeed-numbered non-Olympic times. Cold temperatures, downtime snow cover, short growing seasons, and high winds characterize alpine surroundings in temperate North America.

                                                      .Figure Skating

Figure skating, as its name suggests, involves skating "numbers" on ice. The sport requires challenges to grind named patterns, or numbers, as part of their routines.

The figure grind blade is about 3/16 inch (4 mm) thick. It is concave ground to emphasis its two edges, although the skater generally uses only one edge at a time.

Main idea of figure skating.

 Sport in which ice skaters, independently or in dyads, perform colorful jumps, spins, and footwork. The figure grind blade has a special saw-toothed toe pick, or toe rake, at the front.

                                               .Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a sport at the Winter Olympic Games. It was first included in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Snowboarding was one of five new sports or disciplines added to the Winter Olympic program between 1992 and 2002 and was the only one not to have been a former order or demonstration event. Modern snowboarding as we know it, begun in 1966 with a toy called surfer made by Sherman Poppen, and mastermind from Michigan USA. In the 70s snowboarding got its ultramodern shape and started to become popular around the world; and in 1998, snowboarding came a Winter Olympic sport.

                                           . Ice Hockey

field hockey, out of door game played by two opposing brigades of 11 players each who use sticks twisted at the striking end to hit a small, hard ball into their opponent's thing. It is called field hockey to distinguish it from the analogous game played on ice. Hockey is believed to date from the foremost societies. 

  fun data about ice hockey in the Olympics:

                                                                         

Ice Hockey has been part of the Olympic program 25 times (including this time). A sum of 32 Ice Hockey events have been held each-time in the Olympics (including planned events this year). There have been 2 different events in Olympic Ice Hockey.

     

                                                             . Luge

Luge is a downtime sport featured at the Winter Olympic Games where a contender or two-person platoon rides a flat sled while lying supine (face up) and base first. The sport is generally queried on a specially designed ice track that allows graveness to increase the sled's speed.

                                               . Biathlon

A downtime sport combining cross-country skiing with rifle shooter. The sport is embedded in the skiing traditions of Scandinavia, where early occupants deified the Norse god Ull as both the ski god and the stalking god. Ull's goddess women Skadi was also celebrated as a hunter-skier.

Paralympic Sport:

Here is the explanation of some paralympic sport:

                                    .Para Surfing

The cyber surfer with precedence has an unconditional right of way to any surge they choose. Once they essay a surge, precedence will go to the coming cybersurfed in the rotation. However, that cybersurfed will be penalized, if another cybersurfed gets in the way of the person with precedence or takes a surge they are trying to ride.

                                                 . Para Karate

Karate comprises two modalities: Kumite and Kata. In Kumite, or combat, the winner of the three-nanosecond fights is the one who obtains a clear lead of eight points, or the contender having the loftiest number of points at time-up.

                                                  . Para Dance Sport

                                               

Para cotilion sport is an extremely elegant, graceful and swish sport which involves athletes with a physical impairment that affects the lower branches.